Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Activity Under OMB Review:
Report of Extension of Credit to Political Candidates

Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Activity Under OMB Review:
Report of Extension of Credit to Political Candidates

Federal Register Notice
May 15, 2003
Volume 68, Number 94

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection
Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for extension of currently approved collections. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published on February 26, 2003 (68 FR vol. 68,
page 8959).

Affected Public: U.S. air carriers that extend credit to political
candidates during Federal elections.

Background

The Department uses this Form 183 as the means to fulfill its obligation under
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (the Act). The Act's legislative history
indicates that one of its statutory goals is to prevent candidates for Federal
political office from incurring large amounts of unsecured debt with regulated
transportation companies (e.g. airlines). This information collection allows the
Department to monitor and disclose the amount of unsecured credit extended by
airlines to candidates for Federal office. All certificated air carriers are
required to submit this information.

Comments are invited on: Whether this collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the Department concerning extension of
credit to political candidates by airlines. Comments should address whether the
information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate
of the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002
(44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires a statistical agency to clearly identify information
it collects for non-statistical purposes. BTS hereby notifies the respondents and
the public that BTS uses the information it collects under this OMB approval for
non-statistical purposes including, but not limited to, publication of both
Respondent's identity and its data, submission of the information to agencies
outside BTS for review, analysis and possible use in regulatory and other
administrative matters.